Write a program that will input three decimal numbers from a text file named in.

Question

Write a program that will input three decimal numbers from a text file named in.txt and compute the following statistics about them:

The smallest number

The largest number

The sum of the numbers

The mean (average) of the numbers

The median of the numbers

It will output the above statistics in an output text file named out.txt.

It will also output the above statistics to screen (cout).

Data

Input file in.txt contents:

20.2

6.2

7.2

Output file out.txt content:

Smallest Number: 6.2

Largest Number: 20.2

Sum of Numbers: 33.6

Mean of Numbers: 11.2

Median of Numbers: 7.2

Explanation / Answer

#include using namespace std; int main() { FILE *fp; fp = fopen("a.txt","r"); int a,b,c; fscanf("%d",&a); fscanf("%d",&b); fscanf("%d",&c); float min,max,sum=0,mean=0,median=0; sum = a+b+c; mean = (a+b+c)/3.0; if(a>b && a>c) { max=a; } if(b>c && b>a) { max=b; } if(c>b && c>a) { max=c; } if(a

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